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Identity
Person No.
29796
Service No.
92252402BG
Last Name
First Name
Jan Karel Erasmus
Initials
J K E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Cause code
DOAS 7,467
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Infantry Corps
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SADF 3,823
South African Defence Force
Notes

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Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("3 Aatw") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps, Rank, RankID -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: ServiceNo CORRECTED 81009565 -> 92252402BG. The stored number was contamination, not a reading of this man's record: PersonNumbers 29795 to 29796 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number 81009565, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (29795, Coetzee, Jan Hendrik (J H)). A value repeated down a consecutive block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number. Mike's log supplies a different and plausible number for this man specifically, so the stored value is known-wrong regardless of whether the replacement proves exact. The displaced value is recorded here.

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